Wheel-rim for pneumatic tires.



t ,.r. HAYNES." i WHEEL BIH FOB PNEUMATI' TIRES.

` APPLICATION PILE!) NO'V. 519'09.

944,964'. s Patented 1m28', 1909.

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J. HAYNES. WHEEL RIM PoR PNEUMATIG TIBEs.-

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 5, 1909.

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UNrrnD STATES ,PATENT-orales.

JOHN Hams, or liANc'HEsTER, ENGLAND, AssIGNoR To CHARLES ARTHUR BRAD.-

SHAW4 ANnwrLLun EDWARD cUTHBEB'rsoN, Born or MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, AND THOMAS swmnonnm SBELDRAKE, or ILFonD, ENGLAND.

, WHEELBII Fon PNEUMATIG Trans.

Patented Dec. 28,1909.

To ollwhom 'it may concern:

' Be it known that I JOHN HAYNES, a subject'of the Kingof treat Britain, residing .at'ManchesteIg vin Lthe county of Lancaster,

-5 in'the Kingdom' of England, have invented certain new'4 and 'useful Improvementsy in.

Wheel-Rims for Pneumatic 'llires, ofl which the following is a specilication. I

This invention relates to certain improvew ments in wheel rims .for pneumatic tires, andy IThas for its .object toienable the tire to bevI noi'ie quickly withdrawn,-`repaired and then `.placed in position, and to lock the tire in the,l

rimand p revent its creeping. Also to enable 1.5. a tire' having inextensible wired- 4or beaded '.:edges |to be .placed on Aany'existing form of .i The invention will be understood from th followingfdescriptiom reference being had tothe accompanying drawings,A in whichz Figure 1 is a sectional View of the telly and rim portion of a wheel showing. the locking ring contracted; Fig. 2, a similar view, showing thering expanded; Fi 3, a fragmentary cross sectional View .of ig. 1; l"`i0'.` fl, 'a sectional plan View of the ring; auf Fig. 5, the same, showing a slight modilfication; Fig. 6a cross section of Fig. 2. In carrying the invention into effect, I

V'Inside the rim and between the flanges 'I I "place a ring B, of larger diameter than the bed of the rim A, so as to leave an annular space C between it and the rim A. This ring B, which is split at one place D, is for half its circumference fixed about mid-Way between the bed of the rim A, and thet'op of its flanges a by screws and spacing vblocks E, while for the other half it is not so fixed, but coupled to or pressing against it, are a numlber of screwed pins F, and these pins F pass through the rim at intervals, and through nuts or screwed bushings G, so as to support the split ring B, and expand or contract it as required.- By turning these pins F therefore one way, one half of the split ring B is forced outward so as to lie concentric with l the bed (Lf therim A and with the other halt 50 of the VAring B, as shown in Fi 2, or if f turned the other way, the ring collapses inward against o1; toward the bed of the rim A as shown in F igs. 'l and 3, and thus onehalf of. the said split ring is' eccentric'with form the rirnA, which is fixed'. to thefelly, .ofany suitable shape with side flanges a.

the rim, while the other half remains concentric; The joint D in the split ring comes."

vWhere the 'fixed portion ends, and the mov-,r1K

able' portion begins, and the valve enters about opposite the joint viz. at H.

The modefofl action. is as follows To `60 place the tire in' osition, the lock nuts I and screws F are s ackened, 'so that the 'half circumference of the split ring B, contracts and lies eccentric with the rim'A. 4The air tube uninflated, and thev outerv cover are 65 slipped over the ianges at the valve hole H., The tire is then worked over the fianges a,V all around,'and slips quite easily over the last few inches, generally the hardest-part in placing a tire on a The screwed pins i0- F are then tightened up, and locked bythe nuts I, until the half circumference ofthe .split ring VB is forced out or expanded.'

against the tire, and assumesa circular- UA shape, that is, it is brought into` concentric- 75 ity with the lixed part of the ring B, and v compels theinextensible wired or beaded edges of'the outer cover to assume a similar configuration., The tire is now inflated in.

the usual manner. It is impossible for theSOf A tire to creep, when` either inflated or de- Hated. When the screwed pins F aret-urned back again, the springy naturel of the split ring .B enables it to contract against'the telly' rim A,and .llielbelow the periphery of 85 the remaining partei the ring B. Thev removal-of the tire .is thus facilitated.

An important feature of this invention is,

.that in theevent of the tires with inextensible wired, or beaded edgesbeing so badly 90 dama ed as to necessitate a new tire being placed on the rim, and it beingimpossibl'e to obtain a similar tire at the moment, (as may happen in country. districts), by'. taking out the two anchoring or holding screws the Whole band may be removed from the felly rim A, leaving a plain rim upon which an ordinaryti e ca n be placed in the usual manner. In ot r words, anordinaryil beaded rim to which this band hasbeen applied, can at any moment be reconverted into an ordinary rim, and used as such.-

Fi 4 shows the spacing blocks-E made l circu ar,'in Fig. 5 they are made in the form of bars.

I declare that what I claim is 1. In a vehicle wheel the combination 0....a.. riml having curved' inwardly projecting flanges, a flexible split ring/located within .said rim and extending substantially around the same, devices `for connecting a port-ion s ol'l said ring to said rim, whereby, it is held 5 in fixed relation thereto, and adjustable de-.

flanges, a flexible split ring located within saidrim andextend'ing substantially around the' same, spacing blocks interposedbetween l5 said "ring, and said rim throughout substantially olielialf of said ring7 serews for holdingsaid, ring against said spacing blocks and adjustable screws bearing against the underside of. the other half of said ring, whereby the position of the same relative to the flanges may be adjusted.

In witness whereof, I have hereuntosigned my name this` 26th day of October 1909, in the presence of two subscribing wit,-

' JOHN HAYNES.

Witnesses:

SAM NORTON SMITH. FREDERICK' VALLIs HOPKINS. 

